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Busters' Wesley arrested Thursday
Published 6/6/2009 in Sports : Police
By The Telegram
Garden City Community College basketball point guard Bobby Wesley was arrested Thursday night on allegations of possession of marijuana and having no Kansas drug-tax stamp.
According to Garden City police, Wesley, 19, was arrested at 8:57 p.m. in the 400 block of Center Street.
Police Sargent Michael Reagle said Friday the arrest was based upon a search warrant that was issued on May 12 for Wesley's residence at 401 E. Kansas Ave., Apt. 4, in Garden City. Wesley was not present when officers searched the residence.
Reagle said officers found 46.8 grams of marijuana in the apartment that day that allegedly belongs to Wesley. Reagle said that Garden City police had been trying to locate Wesley since May 12 but had not found him until Thursday.
Wesley was being held in the Finney County jail on a $30,000 bond.
Garden City men's head basketball coach Kris Baumann said he had heard about Wesley's arrest and had not been able to look through the police report by Friday afternoon, so he would not make any comment on the incident.
County Attorney John Wheeler said his office had not received any paper work from the Garden City police department on Wesley's arrest.
Broncbusters' athletic director Bob Larson, who would not comment on the arrest either, said that the school does have an athletic code of conduct and student code of conduct in the school's student hand book. According to the athletic code of conduct in the hand book, "An individual charged with a criminal offense such as stealing, assault, battery, forgery, etc. will at least receive a long-term suspension." Larson said they will allow the case to run its course through the court system before making a decision on how respond to the matter.
A freshman and starting point guard for Garden City during its run to a sixth-place finish in the NJCAA national tournament in March, Wesley averaged 5.7 points. He led the team in assists with a 186 assists (4.89 average) and steals 72 (1.89).
Wesley's brother, Adrian Dantrell Wesley, 20, was arrested Thursday, along with Mitchell Charles Cooper, 19, of Fort Worth, Texas, at the Wesley residence.
Garden City police officers served a search warrant at 5:10 p.m. to the residence and officers found 3.92 pounds of marijuana, 137 Exstacy pills, 40.5 grams of cocaine, 23.5 grams of crack cocaine, a Smith and Wesson .40-caliber pistol and drug paraphernalia related to the distribution of controlled substances.
Officers arrested Adrian Wesley and Cooper, who were inside the residence at the time of the search. Both were lodged in the Finney County jail on allegations of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone; possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone; possession of MDMA with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone; no drug-tax stamp; felony possession of drug paraphernalia; and criminal possession of a firearm.
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